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Happy OC tober!🌷

Day 11 of #owlpipinktober 👉 forest adventure!

Plants plants plants!!! Who among us can say they don't adore houseplants? It's one thing that Jurek and his father shared, a love for plants and decorating homes with them. Jurek's apartment has 5 healthy babes, and the vine and the spikey palm you see are the ones from the hall!

🔹️Tomasz grew up in a house of rose gardeners. However, he pursued a career in the train yards as a young man and carried his love of plants with him.

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Happy OC tober! 🌷

Day 8 of #beinktober 🔹️a secret encounter

Jurek and Irene again! Irene works out of town and leaves Vancouver for long periods. And when she does come home, sometimes it is a surprise!

This illustration is seen in Jurek's apartment, outside of his bedroom door, so the real secret here is that none of Jurek's friends know she is in town, but once Jurek starts bailing on their plans they soon figure it out.

🔹️Jurek is an FTM transman, post op for top surgery. Yet even still, he prefers gyming and swimming with binders and shirts on. A bare chest, exposing his scars, is a rare sight.

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Happy OC tober 🌷

#beeinktober Day 10 🔹️ witch cat

Jurek can be a bit sentimental and as a result he has plenty of trinkets and pictures decorating his home. This snapshot of Irene dressed in goofy Halloween attire posing with Monmon, their friend's cat, normally resides tucked between the loose part of a sconce in his apartment. But when Irene is out of town, it is one of his favorite memories to revisit.

🔹️Jurek's apartment holds many memories and minor details about his life and influences. People who have come and gone out his life still have a small place in Jurek's home. However, his previous girlfriend, Hestia, only has one small piece left of her memory in that home: a handwritten, hardbound book titled Hestia's Helpful Hints.

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Yesterday I missed a day in #beeinktober but ah well!

Day 6 🔹️ Falling Leaves

Fall is my favorite season, and here on Vancouver Island it is absolutely stunning. Across the strait in the city of Vancouver, where Jurek lives, it is just as stunning and best enjoyed in the company of loved ones. Featuring Jurek and Irene ✴

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Happy OC tober! 🌷

Day 13 of #owlpiptober 👉 vines

Inktober this year is a series of "postcards" from Jurek's life. These snapshots have featured Jurek living his everyday life as an FTM trans man in Vancouver, Canada. He spends his days with his found family, in his apartment, and being haunted by his dead dad, Tomasz.

Please appreciate his scarred, soft, chunky body!

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#owlpipinktober DAY 4 👉 ANGST

PSA 💥 Let your male characters cry! It's 2019, make them queer, fat, real, and crying!💥 Just like Jurek!

.. now back to #inktober. You know that fun kind of angst where you simply don't know how to stop pitying yourself, and wallowing. There seems to be nothing else to do other than ride through it and hope you come out on the other side? That's what we've got here! Collapsed on his apartment floor leaning against the balcony window, openly weeping with only a ghost for company. And the ghost doesn't even seem to know any better about what to do next.

🔹️ Jurek's father died suddenly 4 months ago. Though not even an apathetic relationship and minimal communication between one another could have prepared Jurek for the loss of his dad. 🔹️ 4 months ago Tomasz appeared in the realm of the living, with a memory gap that spans from 1972 communist Poland to 2018 Vancouver, Canada. And yet here he is. 🙃

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Sculpture artist James Brenner works in a variety of mediums from steel to glass to wood and has been creating sculptures for more than two decades. WATCH: http://on.tpt.org/1mZTBVm  (via GIPHY)

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“I think people write, more than anything else, because of what they want to read.” - 2015 Man Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James

Watch his full profile on MN Original here: http://on.tpt.org/1UqyUwk